Obama Team Tilts Toward Gates
Beyond keeping Gates, Obama appears headed toward staffing much of his foreign policy team with people tied to the Clinton administration, including many who were strong supporters of the Iraq War, most notably Sen. Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. [See Jeremy Scahill’s “This Is Change?”]
That trend has raised concerns among Obama supporters who had hoped Obama meant what he said when he declared during the campaign that “I don’t ...
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Anybody except Gates (or Rumsfeld). How about vetting the following better candidates: Chuck Spinney, Max Cleland, James Webb, Sarah Sewall, Gary Hart, Wesley Clark, Tony Taguba, Richard Danzig, Chuck Hagel, Jack Reed, William Fallon, Michèle A. Flournoy, John P. White, or others that are not lying toadies. Even Powell. There are many options.